Ethical Issues:

• Can animals suffer? There have been observations of animals expressing distress and pain.

• Is it necessary to test products like cosmetics and shampoos on animals? Unnecessary mistreatment.

• 2,772,758 animals killed for research in 1994.

• If the public subjected animals to similar experiments they would be prosecuted under general anti-cruelty laws.

• Some experiments include electric shocks, flashing lights, and chemicals to produce epileptic fits. Animals have surgeries conducted under poor anesthesia. Sometimes waking up in the middle of procedures.

• May animals are used in classrooms in mass numbers with inexperienced students not correctly conducting experiments.

Are animals the best tool for research?

• Animal experiments can mislead researchers or contribute to illness or death by failing to predict the toxic affects of drugs.

• There are innumerable subtle, but significant differences between species.

• Other more reliable methods to learn about medical problems.

• Unnatural administration of disease and laboratory environment.

• Better methods like epidemiological studies, human tissue and cell cultures, autopsy studies, endoscopic examination and biopsy, as well as new imaging methods, and molecular epidemiology.

• Animal models can be used so prove any theory.